Take a look…

Gallery Spotlight on LiveDaily.com – http://www.livedaily.com/news/mika-gallery-spotlight-seattle-wa-oct-26-2009-20533.html

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flickr slideshow – http://www.flickr.com/photos/emswazzu/sets/72157622568724251/show/

For more on Mika
http://www.mikasounds.com/
http://www.myspace.com/mikamyspace
http://twitter.com/mikasounds

Last Tuesday, the night before I escaped for a week, I got to see, and photograph the band as they kick off their tour, supporting their new CD – Save Me San Francisco…Sounded great, looked great…was a great shoot. You never would have known, had they not told us, how sick Pat was…he was like, we cancelled last shows, and they ended up cancelling the next night in PDX, but he was like, we couldn’t cancel at home…as he harks partially from here…there were tons of local fans…everyone was super excited, most up front in the pit area had VIP passes that would earn them a Meet and Greet post show …the fans were really excited, and I can see why. There is something inherently real and authentic about this band.

Anywho, their new CD drops this week…pick it up…

A selection of the images are on Spotlight on LiveDaily.com –
http://livedaily.com/news/train-gallery-spotlight-seattle-wa-oct-20-2009-20487.html

Here’s some of my faves…even under the weather, Pat looks pretty good, just sayin;)

Full set on flickr – http://www.flickr.com/photos/emswazzu/sets/72157622670469296/detail/

…shooting Mika tonight, and SPW again, tomorrow, so many more images to come…along w/a special collection of Fall colors to be blogged later tonight;)

I shot 2 shows: The Funhouse on Friday the 13th(spooky! lol) and King Cobra’s early show on Saturday…super fun!

The lines ups for the shows were as follows:

The Funhouse ~
Omnia Mutantor
Oswald Effect – www.myspace.com/theoswaldeffect
Mos Generator www.myspace.com/mosgenerator
Sunday Night Blackout – www.myspace.com/sundaynightblackout

King Cobra ~ Featuring Fourthcity DJ’s http://fourthcity.net/ – www.myspace.com/fourthcity
DJ Zapan www.myspace.com/zapan
DJ Same DNA www.myspace.com/djsamedna
DJ Absolute Madman www.myspace.com/absolutemadman
Specs One www.myspace.com/specsone
Delicious People www.myspace.com/deliciouspeeps

Both fun shows…the first at the Funhouse, a hardcore rock line up…the second, a kind of mellow chill hip hop bit with DJ spinners, etc…

As well, both shows were just a few in the line up of the Noise for the Needy ~ Festival 2008, www.noisefortheneedy.org. This year, the NFTN festival sponsored the charity: Urban Rest Stop ~ www.urbanreststop.org.

It felt great to contribute in some way…my way is to give images to them(NFTN) and the artists. I had a great time…it was great practice and I got to meet some great people. My good deed for the year(I kid…)…

I actually rented 2 lenses ~ a 24mm f1.4L(test drive), a 50mm f1.2L(dreaming), and used my own 100mm f2.0. I had a flash in my bag, but I am both not a huge fan of flash in show photography, and I honestly don’t know how to properly use it in such a setting…so it was more a if I absolutely need it back up. I was pleased with the images I composed and captured with out…

Here are a smattering of my favorites from the two nights!

Full sets of images on flickr www.flickr.com/photos/noisefortheneedy
>>Full set from the Funhouse<<
>>Full set from King Cobra<<

xoxo
~elisa